The Board has remanded the claims for increased ratings as they are not fully developed and additional evidence may be needed to make a determination.
The deciding factor: The appeal is being remanded due to incomplete development of the record, which could include new evidence that might affect the outcome of the rating decisions.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of ganglion cyst excision of right wrist, peripheral neuropathy of right upper extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 31, 2019
- Citation
- 19107631
What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for diabetes mellitus, to include as due to herbicide exposure, and remanded the claims for peripheral neuropathy of both upper and lower extremities.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for diabetes, vision impairment, and peripheral neuropathy of the bilateral upper and lower extremities as secondary to diabetes due to lack of exposure to herbicide agents during active service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for service connection are remanded due to the need for additional development regarding his arthritis, recurrent meningioma, seizures, peripheral neuropathy, and hypertension.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for 17 claimed disabilities, including back disability, sciatica, hip disabilities, respiratory disability, Hodgkin's lymphoma, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, erectile dysfunction, and peripheral neuropathies, finding they did not manifest in service or within presumptive periods and were not causally related to service. The Board remanded claims for left wrist disability and skin disability for further development.
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